• Tailz (she/her)@lemmy.world
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    This is me but with Shawshank Redemption. I get what it was trying to go for but I just didn’t vibe with it. I can appreciate the fact that so many people saw something in it that I didn’t. To me it was decent but by no means one of the best films ever

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    7 days ago

    Anything from Quentin Tarantino, his writing style just bugs the fuck out of me, he is so far up his own ass and it shows with every stupid pretentious monologue.

    So much sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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    6 days ago

    When you find mediocrity unacceptable, popular shit doesn’t usually suit your palate. This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.

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    Everyone around me said i should watch Napoleon Dynamite because it was sooooo funny. It was just an autistic kid doing and saying cringey things.

    I also hate Donnie darko, Requiem for a dream, 90 % of David Lynch (especially Mulholland drive), citizen Kain, etc. Too many to mention.

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    Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind. I walked away thinking wow that was boring and I really hate Jim carry.

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      Jim Harry’s best role was the mask. Because his normal stupid Jim carry shit fits well with the character. Other than that he annoys the shit out of me.

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      Same. I mean, it wasn’t a bad movie, but I didn’t walk out of the movie theater and think about it a lot after, either. Even though it’s supposed to be a movie you think about. I like all sorts of foreign films, so it’s not that.

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      This and The Joker are the two movies that come to mind when this type of question comes up. Inception is not particularly bad, just so… correct. I was expecting something really mindbinding, that would make me rethink about it long after the movie was over. It was just a pretty scenery with mid acting. No amount of practical effect can carry a movie on his own. The Joker on the other hand was just a waste of my time and left me infuriated.

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      This one for me too. I watched after hearing all the hype, and I just thought it was subpar at best and actively bad at worst.

      I figured it was because those who hyped it had never been exposed to the ideas in the movie and thought it was special. While my old ass had seen these ideas hashed and rehashed a dozen times over the years.

      It felt like a new Brat Pack phoning in a pay check.

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        It was the whole time in dreams goes by exactly 10 times faster than reality that lost me on that one.

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        This is why I consume zero hype for any movie. Ive ruined so many movies by having a set of expectations going in.

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    Never liked Star Wars. The original trilogy. I watched it and nothing no sense of adventure no tension just blah. The new ones are worse, watched all of those too but they fail even harder for what feels like the same reasons. To be clear I fucking love Sci-Fi books/movies/tv shows doesn’t matter. Some of the starwars books are ok like anything with Kerra Holt in it

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      First off, Star Wars isn’t scifi. It’s a space western/opera. Its the same story told a thousand times before but in a different setting. It doesnt offer any philosophical quanderies or insights that actual sci fi does .

      It has always been about being a great cinematic achievement for it’s time. Theaters have great sound systems because of Star Wars. If you werent of the age to experience it at a time when the biggest movies were ‘Kramer vs Kramer’ and ‘Harry And Tonto’, it really isnt very good.

      It’s totally okay to not like it. I was a HUGE fan when it came out but I understand that it doesnt keep up with the cinema tech that it inspired.

      My wife and friends think I’m a Star Wars nerd and keep giving me gifts and swag. I have never liked any of it past the original trilogy and I outgrew that a long, long time ago. In fact, all the other trilogies just downright pissed me off for how awful they were…just horrible dialogue, acting and storytelling.

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      Personally i find star wars to be fine but not great. It has interesting lore and whatnot but on the whole it mostly just feels ok. The exception (to me) is the mandalorian. Where the main star wars films are (sort of) a soap opera in space (space opera), the mandalorian is a space western, and a pretty well done one. It takes 2 episodes or so to pick up the pace, but i found it to be really enjoyable.

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      7 days ago

      Andor/Rogue One are very, very good. All else is cold day old dogshit unless you grew up with it and have nostalgia.

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    I find it helps to avoid the hype trains surrounding new media releases, as well as anything after the teaser trailer.

    Getting one’s expectations up usually results in the said media failing to live up.

    Best to go in blind and make your own mind up afterwards!

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    I absolutely hated both Dune Movies… Such a boring and in my opinion incoherent mess. My jaw dropped when i found out it was So universally highly rated. It still makes me angry when i think about it.

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      I liked the visuals / cinematography of the 2021 version, but I haven’t gotten around to watching part 2 because I’m not really invested in the story.
      It felt like a lore dump that didn’t really build much connection to the characters, followed by a bit of action and some heavy sequel-baiting.

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    The Godfather. Despite several attempts I’ve never made it through, it just can’t hold my attention.

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    Am I doing this for Big Mouth or is it really that awful? Seems like the only humour is shock stuff but the shock has long worn off. I can’t even tell who it’s meant for, kids who ignore the rating that might still learn something from it?

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      Genuinely surprising. I know not every movie is loved by everyone, but I thought Saving Private Ryan was generally regarded as one of the better efforts. What other movies do you enjoy from the genre?

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        So my favorite mini series of all time is Band of Brothers, I watch it yearly. I’ve tried several times to make sense of why I don’t like saving private Ryan, and The closest I’ve ever come is some of the casting decisions I just felt were a little bit off, the performances a bit stilted.

        Again, not shitting on the movie just trying to explain why it never did it for me.

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    I have never tried so hard to like an artist as Frank Ocean. He isnt for me, other than his Earl festures and when Three Stacks did a quick track on Blonde.

    Its no disrespect, its me thats the problem